THERMAL ACTIVITY.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 3, Issue 148, 2 October 1895, Page 3

THERMAL ACTIVITY.

The Scientific American, quoting an artiele from another science publication, the EPOCH, makes a curious misstatement regarding this district. Referring to the Yellowstone National Park the writer says that'• since the destruction of the New Zealand geyser area in 1886 the great national reserve is entitled to be called the Wonderland of the World." It is scarcely credible that any contributor to a science magazine should be in ignorance of the fact that since the eruption of Tarawcra the geysers and hot springs throughout the whole of the thermal district of New Zealand have shown greater activity than ever, and that numerous other springs have burst out in places undisturbed before. If it were a. mere slip of the pen on the part, of the writer in the EPOCH it might have been passed over without, comment, but when so extensively circulated a journal as the SCIENTIFIC A.MKIUCAJN' endorses the blunder we must enter a protest. The Americans are justly proud of their National Park as witness the following description, taken from the article in question:- Within its limits the most varied of Nature's workings may be observed. Its hundreds of hot springs and geysers, its precipitous canons and rushing cataracts, its snowcapped mountain peaks and mirrored lakes make it of surpassing interest. The lover of natural scenery may linger Ion;; over its beauties and its wonders. —How aptly does this describe the New Zealand Wonderland! Were Rotorua within as easy access of one of the large American cities us it is of Auckland it would be the resort of tens of thousands of tourists annually. If the Government remained supine in the matter, the merchants of the city would see the advantage of advertising the place.